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• Demonstrating the Latest IE 0-day Vulnerability

  Mar 11, 2010 - Yesterday, Microsoft issued a security advisory for an unpatched and actively exploited invalid reference pointer ...

• Many Zeus botnet C&C servers taken down

  Mar 11, 2010 - Swiss security blog Abuse.ch has reported that the worst Zeus botnet hosting ISP was taken ...

• You don’t want to go looking for Corey Haim videos

  Mar 11, 2010 - Hollywood celebrity Corey Haim has died in typical tabloid fashion: “under investigation.” And we all ...

• Rogue security products are the new black

  Mar 11, 2010 - Well, it looks like rogues are going to be in style this season.Our ...

• Spam and Phishing Landscape: March 2010

  Mar 11, 2010 - In February, spammers continued to use the news of the earthquake in Haiti and the ...

• Malicious Web Attack Using Executable With facebook.com in Name

  Mar 11, 2010 - As we were working through URLs identified as suspicious due to our GTI technology, one ...

• Backdoor.Sykipot At Work

  Mar 11, 2010 - Following our blog, Zero-Day Attack on IE6 – JS.Sykipot Doesn’t Spare Retired Software, covering ...

• Medicine, Taxation, and Identity in Cyberspace

  Mar 11, 2010 - There are innumerable benefits to digitized record-keeping. I can’t say enough about the benefits of ...

• Allaple Virus Author Sentenced

  Mar 11, 2010 -  An Estonian virus writer has been sentenced to jail in Harju, Estonia....

• How are ATM skimmers installed?

  Mar 11, 2010 -  ATM skimmers are installed like this:...

Featured

• Data Theft Creates Notification Nightmare For BlueCross

  Mar 02, 2010 - IDG News Service - A break-in one evening last October at a shopping mall in Chattanooga, Tennessee, is proving expensive for BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee. Over the past five months, the company has employed a small army of workers to sort through the aftermath of what has proved to be a large and complex breach. Late last year, BlueCross and forensics company Kroll OnTrack employed 500 full-time workers and 300 part-time employees, working in ...

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• SQL injection attacks and malware led to most data breaches

  Feb 11, 2010 -  Posted by Dancho Danchev @ 5:27 pm With millions of personal records and payment card information stolen on a regular basis, several recently released reports independently confirm ...

• UTMB warns 1,200 of identity theft threat

  Feb 11, 2010 -  The University of Texas Medical Branch has mailed letters notifying 1,200 patients that sensitive information about them had been available to a woman charged with identity theft in an unrelated ...

• West Virginia Student’s info leaked through routine update

  Feb 03, 2010 -  Around 53 West Virginia University students’ personal information was available to others following an "operational error" during a routine update of tax information Jan. 15. The students’ 1098-T forms, ...

• HSU employee info possibly compromised after computer virus

  Jan 30, 2010 -  A Humboldt State University computer infected with a virus may have exposed the personal information of 3,500 people employed by the school between 2002 and 2006. HSU spokesman Paul ...

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• Darkmarket Avatars
• Desperate Phishing Attempt
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• Another Bot Bites the Dust?
• I’m Feeling Lucky?
• Pwn2Own Interview with Charlie Miller
• RSA Conference 2010
• Analyzing PDF Files
• This you?? What’s the point of phishing a Twitter account?
• New IE Zero-Day Exploit (CVE-2010-0806)
• Surfing for the Na’vi could give you a virus!
• If it smells ‘phishy’, it probably is!
• Malicious Web Site / Malicious Code: Searching for Corey Haim Leads to Rogue AV
• McAfee Labs Publishes ‘March Spam Report’
• Zero-Day attack on IE6 – JS.Sykipot Doesn’t Spare Retired Software
• Is that a bot in your pocket – or does it just look like one?